The first Gil-removal patch I'm aware of was against python 1.4, so it's not like people haven't been trying. The problem has never been removing the GIL per se

The first Gil-removal patch I'm aware of was against python 1.4, so it's not like people haven't been trying. The problem has never been removing the GIL per se, but removing the GIL without slowing down the language when running single thread